Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	oath_n	session_n	2,554	5	10.8429	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79360	By the King. A proclamation, prohibiting all unlawful and seditious meetings and conventicles under pretence of religious worship.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1661 (1661)	Wing C3526; Thomason 669.f.26[47]; ESTC R210890	1,169	1

C R DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE By the King A PROCLAMATION Prohibiting all unlawful and Seditious Meetings and Conventicles under pretence of Religious Worship CHARLES R. ALthough nothing can be more unwelcome unto Vs then the necessity of restreyning some part of that Liberty which was indulged to tender Consciences by Our late gracious Declaration Yet since divers persons known by the name of Anabaptists and Quakers Fifth-Monarchy-men or some such like Appellation as a mark of distinction and separation under pretence of serving God do daily meét in great numbers in secret places and at unusual times by reason whereof they begin to boast of their multitudes and to encrease in their confidences as having frequent opportunities to settle a perfect correspondency and confederacy between themselves of which some evil Effects have already ensued even to the disturbance of the publique Peace by Insurrection and Murther for which the Offenders must answer to the Law and far worse may be still expected unless some speedy course be taken to prevent their further growth To the intent therefore that none of those persons who have presumed to make so ill an use of Our indulgence may be strengthened in such their proceedings by any general words or expressions in Our late Declaration We have thought fit by these presents to publish and Declare Our Royal Will and Pleasure That no Meeting whatsoever of the Persons aforesaid under pretence of Worshipping God shall at any time hereafter be permitted or allowed unless it be in some Parochial Church or Chappel in this Realm or in private houses by the persons there inhabiting And that all Meetings and Assemblies whatsoever in order to any Spiritual exercise or serving of God by the persons aforesaid unless in the places aforesaid shall be esteemed and are hereby declared to be unlawful Assemblies and shall be prosecuted accordingly and the persons therein Assembled shall be proceeded against as persons riotously and unlawfully Assembled And for the better execution of this Our Proclamation and the prevention of all illegal and Seditious Meetings and Conventicles We do hereby streightly charge and command all Mayors Sheriffs Iustices of Peace Constables Headboroughs Commanders and other Our Officers and Ministers whom it may concern That they cause diligent search to be made from time to time in all and every the places where any such Meetings or Conventicles as aforesaid shall or may be suspected And that they cause all and every the persons therein Assembled to be apprehended and brought before one or more Iustices of the Peace and to be bound over to appear at the next Sessions within the respective Precincts and in the mean time to find Sureties for the good Behaviour or in default thereof to be committed to the next Gaol And further We do Will and Command Our Iustices of Peace That they cause the Oath of Allegiance to be tendred to every person so brought before them and upon his or their refusal to proceed according as by the Statute made in the seventh year of the Reign of Our Royal Grand-father of ever blessed memory they are directed and commanded Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Tenth day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty in the Twelfth Year of Our Reign GOD SAVE THE KING LONDON Printed by John Bill Printer to the KING' 's most Excellent MAJESTY 1660. At the KING'S Printing-House in Black-Friers Jan. 11